Xan83 wrote:
Hi guys,
I just purchased an used EF 70-210 F4 ; it's my first long lens and I wanted to begin with something cheap.
Any of you have a Lightroom profile for it? It doesn't seem to be supported officialy by adobe.
Thx

Just bought a 5D "Classic" for 300 bucks. Looking forward to seeing what I can do with it while people argue in forums about dynamic range at ISO 100 in extreme daylight shadows, burst rates and 4k video

Close to a record, based on age: shot in 1988 on manual focus Canon T70 camera on Kodachrome 64 film, with FD300 f4 (not L version).

I saw two lionesses guarding a kill, when 5 hyenas approached, trying to drive the lions off. One lioness left, leaving this one.

5:1 odds, the lion looses, right? Wrong! The lion took a fast swipe with her paw at the lead hyena and missed. I thought this might happen again, so I manually focused on the lion, and manually set the camera high, 1/500 at f4. I preferred a sniper one click approach, rather than spray and pray (using the T70 2 frames per second).

This hyena barely escaped with his life! Notice the fist sized rock, kicked up, floating in air. After this, the 5 hyenas gave up and left! This picture was published in National Wildlife, ages ago. There were 4500 pictures submitted in that contest, and this was one of 11 pictures printed.

This is fun! I hope I figured out the upload/image link. Obsolete to me means the equipment was old at the time the photo was taken. Some pictures of big things and little things that fly, from the past month with a Rebel XT (12 years past release date) with 70-210mm f3.5-4.5 (27 years past release date). Combined that is 39 years past release date.

Don Clary wrote:
Close to a record, based on age: shot in 1988 on manual focus Canon T70 camera on Kodachrome 64 film, with FD300 f4 (not L version).

I saw two lionesses guarding a kill, when 5 hyenas approached, trying to drive the lions off. One lioness left, leaving this one.

5:1 odds, the lion looses, right? Wrong! The lion took a fast swipe with her paw at the lead hyena and missed. I thought this might happen again, so I manually focused on the lion, and manually set the camera high, 1/500 at f4. I preferred a sniper one click approach, rather than spray and pray (using the T70 2 frames per second).

This hyena barely escaped with his life! Notice the fist sized rock, kicked up, floating in air. After this, the 5 hyenas gave up and left! This picture was published in National Wildlife, ages ago. There were 4500 pictures submitted in that contest, and this was one of 11 pictures printed.

Don Clary wrote:
Close to a record, based on age: shot in 1988 on manual focus Canon T70 camera on Kodachrome 64 film, with FD300 f4 (not L version).

I saw two lionesses guarding a kill, when 5 hyenas approached, trying to drive the lions off. One lioness left, leaving this one.

5:1 odds, the lion looses, right? Wrong! The lion took a fast swipe with her paw at the lead hyena and missed. I thought this might happen again, so I manually focused on the lion, and manually set the camera high, 1/500 at f4. I preferred a sniper one click approach, rather than spray and pray (using the T70 2 frames per second).

This hyena barely escaped with his life! Notice the fist sized rock, kicked up, floating in air. After this, the 5 hyenas gave up and left! This picture was published in National Wildlife, ages ago. There were 4500 pictures submitted in that contest, and this was one of 11 pictures printed.

Taken today with lowly 40D and nifty fifty 50 f1,8 II. I use this setup to take product photos for my shop and I just had to try this one on black canvas that I got last year, but I haven't gotten around to use it yet.

The lighting was a simple LED light, coming from the left side. Aperture was f11 at close focus distance, so the further bottle is very slightly OOF. Focusing was done manually via LiveView, as the implementation of LV AF on 40D is abysmal. I also tried it at f2,2 but oof area was very distracting. Then I fiddled around a little in Lightroom plus I cloned out a lot of dust bunnies on the bottles, even though I dusted the bottles off beforehand. Dusting off the product is the key. It takes a minute, while the retouching can last 10's of minutes. And fingerprints are almost unclonable afterwards.

rstoddard11 wrote:
Just bought a 5D "Classic" for 300 bucks. Looking forward to seeing what I can do with it while people argue in forums about dynamic range at ISO 100 in extreme daylight shadows, burst rates and 4k video

Don Clary wrote:
Close to a record, based on age: shot in 1988 on manual focus Canon T70 camera on Kodachrome 64 film, with FD300 f4 (not L version).

I saw two lionesses guarding a kill, when 5 hyenas approached, trying to drive the lions off. One lioness left, leaving this one.

5:1 odds, the lion looses, right? Wrong! The lion took a fast swipe with her paw at the lead hyena and missed. I thought this might happen again, so I manually focused on the lion, and manually set the camera high, 1/500 at f4. I preferred a sniper one click approach, rather than spray and pray (using the T70 2 frames per second).

This hyena barely escaped with his life! Notice the fist sized rock, kicked up, floating in air. After this, the 5 hyenas gave up and left! This picture was published in National Wildlife, ages ago. There were 4500 pictures submitted in that contest, and this was one of 11 pictures printed.

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This is really an amazing shot, and even more amazing that it was taken with a T70! Outstanding, Don!!

This one was licensed by the National Geographic back in 2002, before they liked the idea of using "digital" images... I had to use Fred's stair interpolation to make the file large enough for submission.

D30, photo shot in April, 2001 in Hawaii....I really fell in love with photography all over again because of that camera! I had that camera for the longest time, I sold it and when the guy I sold it to decided he was upgrading to a different Canon camera I bought it back. I guess too much sentimental value.

Don Clary wrote:
Close to a record, based on age: shot in 1988 on manual focus Canon T70 camera on Kodachrome 64 film, with FD300 f4 (not L version).

I saw two lionesses guarding a kill, when 5 hyenas approached, trying to drive the lions off. One lioness left, leaving this one.

5:1 odds, the lion looses, right? Wrong! The lion took a fast swipe with her paw at the lead hyena and missed. I thought this might happen again, so I manually focused on the lion, and manually set the camera high, 1/500 at f4. I preferred a sniper one click approach, rather than spray and pray (using the T70 2 frames per second).

This hyena barely escaped with his life! Notice the fist sized rock, kicked up, floating in air. After this, the 5 hyenas gave up and left! This picture was published in National Wildlife, ages ago. There were 4500 pictures submitted in that contest, and this was one of 11 pictures printed.